Jean-Louis Forain. Jean-Louis Forain was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher.
Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris. He began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals including Le Monde Parisien and Le rire satirique.
Wanting to expand his horizons, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, studying under Jean-Leon Gerome as well as another sculptor/painter, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Forain's quick and often biting wit allowed him to befriend poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine as well as many writers, most notably Joris-Karl Huysmans.
He was one of only seven known recipients to receive a first edition of A Season in Hell directly from Rimbaud. He was the youngest artist to frequent and participate in the feverish debates led by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas at the Cafe de la Nouvelle Athènes in Montmartre.
A follower and protege of Degas, Forain joined the Impressionist circle in time to take part in the fourth independent exhibition in 1879; he participated in four of the eight Impressionist Exhibitions. Influenced by Impressionist theories on light and color, he depicts scenes of everyday life: his watercolors, pastels, and paintings focused on Parisian popular entertainments and themes of modernity, the racetrack, the ballet, the comic opera, and bustling cafes. Forain is the most famous caricatur
Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris. He began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals including Le Monde Parisien and Le rire satirique.
Wanting to expand his horizons, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, studying under Jean-Leon Gerome as well as another sculptor/painter, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Forain's quick and often biting wit allowed him to befriend poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine as well as many writers, most notably Joris-Karl Huysmans.
He was one of only seven known recipients to receive a first edition of A Season in Hell directly from Rimbaud. He was the youngest artist to frequent and participate in the feverish debates led by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas at the Cafe de la Nouvelle Athènes in Montmartre.
A follower and protege of Degas, Forain joined the Impressionist circle in time to take part in the fourth independent exhibition in 1879; he participated in four of the eight Impressionist Exhibitions. Influenced by Impressionist theories on light and color, he depicts scenes of everyday life: his watercolors, pastels, and paintings focused on Parisian popular entertainments and themes of modernity, the racetrack, the ballet, the comic opera, and bustling cafes. Forain is the most famous caricatur
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